Teesside long jump star Chris Tomlinson has beaten reigning world champion Dwight Phillips in making a winning leap in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The 22-year-old British record holder from Middlesbrough was the only jumper to go over eight metres to notch a notable victory in the Yokohama Super Meet in Japan.

Chris, who reached the world championship finals in Paris last month with his best leap of the year of 8.16, was never threatened by the American Phillips, who finished down the field in eighth position.

Tomlinson's winning leap in Japan was 8.05m (wind: 0.6 metres per second), which gave him victory by 20cm from the runner-up, Walter Davis, the American who is better known for his triple jumping.

Yuki Imai, from Japan, took third place with 7.63m (0.4m/s) on count back from his compatriot Kazushige Inadomi.

Phillips' best leap was 7.48m (into a head wind of 1.1), which was well short of his world-title-winning performance.

Kelly Holmes also gained full value for the long flight to Japan by winning the 800m.

The world silver medalist clocked 2:01.46 for a comfortable tactical victory over the Slovakian Jolanda Ceplak, who was second in 2:03.21.